[Socbin] Bioinformatics post-doc position in Bergen

Inge Jonassen inge.jonassen at ii.uib.no
Wed Jan 20 13:19:52 CET 2010


Postdoctoral researcher
A two-year postdoctoral position is available at Uni BCCS, connected  
to the project “eSysbio – an e-science environment for systems  
biology”. Uni BCCS is co-located with the University of Bergen (UiB),  
and the project is conducted in close collaboration with research  
groups at UiB and with the project “Bridging the gap: disclosure,  
understanding and exploitation of the genotype-phenotype map” at  
Centre for Integrative Genetics (CIGENE), Norwegian University of Life  
Sciences. Both projects are funded by the Research Council of Norway,  
through the eVITA program for e-science, and run from 2007 to 2012.  
The eSysbio project involves a team of researchers, post-doctoral  
fellows, PhD-students, programmers, and master students all located at  
Uni BCCS and UiB.

Postdoctoral candidate:

The candidate must hold a PhD or equivalent (or have submitted a PhD  
thesis before the application deadline). Ideally the candidate has a  
strong theoretical background and practical experience from  
bioinformatics. Candidates with background in software engineering,  
data modelling, or mathematical modelling will also be considered. The  
candidate’s PhD should ideally be in computer science though we are  
also interested in candidates with relevant doctoral degrees in other  
fields (e.g., mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology) if they have  
extensive experience and proven abilities in programming and software  
engineering. Experience from analysis of ultra-high throughput  
sequencing (UTS) data and Web services technologies are advantages.

The candidate will work on analysis of UTS data to identify genetic  
changes resulting from selection experiments on yeast populations.  
These analyses will be performed within the eSysbio-framework, and the  
candidate will be responsible for the development of UTS-support in  
eSysbio, which will involve adoption of UTS data processing and  
analysis tools using appropriate standards. We seek candidates  
interested in taking part in student and project supervision.

We expect enthusiasm and independence as well as the ability to work  
in a team environment. Good knowledge in English is required. Women in  
particular are invited to apply.

The eSysbio project:

The main aim of the project is to develop a collaborative virtual  
workspace for entering, analysing and accessing systems biology data.  
Users of the system will be researchers from multiple disciplines,  
such as molecular biology/biomedicine, statistics and mathematics. The  
workspace will be implemented using a Service Oriented Architecture  
(SOA), where Web services and semantic technologies will play key  
roles. The project is divided into three work packages: 1) Development  
of the collaborative virtual workspace; 2) Resource integration (SOA/ 
Web services/workflows) and semantic technology; and 3) User interface  
and client software integration.

Uni BCCS is a department of the research company Uni Research and has  
approximately 50 employees counting more than 20 different  
nationalities. The centre operates the high performance computing  
facilities of the University of Bergen, and has units within high- 
performance computing (Parallab), bioinformatics (CBU), and  
mathematics (CMU), all involved in the eSysbio project.

Please send the following documents to HR Consultant Monika Voit (monika.voit at uni.no 
) with cc to project leader Senior Scientist Dr Pål Puntervoll (pal.puntervoll at uni.no 
):

	• cover letter
	• detailed CV (max. 3 pages)
	• 1 page description of your research interests
	• contact information of two references

Applications which do not include all required documents will not be  
considered. It is assumed that we have the candidate’s permission to  
contact the references named in the application.

The application deadline is 12th February 2010.

For more information about Uni BCCS or the position, please refer to http://uni.no/bccs 
  or contact Pål Puntervoll (email: pal.puntervoll at uni.no).

http://www.bccs.uni.no/positions


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